Mid Term D&c 2/27/14

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D&C 77

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JST of the Bible. Came to the book of Revelations.
Q & A on Revelation

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Revelations Symbolism

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1=unity
2=opposition
3=God, divine involvement
3.5=a righteous work that is cut short
4=wholeness, geographic totality,
6=perfection not yet attained. (mark of the beast- how incomplete and imperfect is Satan.)
7=perfection, completion, fulness, totality, spiritual perfection. God's total work.
8=8 Resurrection, new beginnings, rebirth & baptism, circumcised.
12=Priesthood power, ordinances,
40 = 40 period of trial of testing, probation, or mourning.
1,000 or 10,000=10,000 power, strength, vastness, magnitude, a lot, greatness.

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7 seals:

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Time, greatness. They may just be divided into periods.
If it's not 1000 years, no problem

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Section 81

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First presidency hold the keys of the Kingdom and presides over the total church (vs. 2)

Current Prophet chooses his counselors (doesn't need to be an apostle)

We can all be replaced in the church. Jesse Gaust walked away and forfitted a blessing. He was quickly replaced.
Information precedes Inspiration*

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Section 90

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90 is the revelation knows as the continueing step in the establishment of the FIRST PRESIDENCY.

• Keys of the Kingdom of God and preside authority over the church.
• They give (revelations) oracles of God
• The Role:
○ Preside over the affairs of the church
○ Set in order all the affairs of the Church and kingdom (vs. 13-16)
• Vs. 5- Don't take the oracles/revelations from the First Presidency lightly

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Section 78, 82-83, 104

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• The Law of Consecration is 100% fully practiced today.
• The United Order is only an application of the principles of the Law of Consecration, not the same thing.
• It is not the Law of Consecration.
• To consecrate means to DEDICATE

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Section 78:

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They were given code names, to protect them from creditors.
- ○ "United Order"
A consecration type organization who united Whitney's business in Kirtland, the Literary Firm, the Church's store in Missouri. Their purpose was "in regulating and establishing the affairs of the storehouse for the poor of my people." (D&C 78:3)
D&C 78:11-12, "

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Section 82:

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Law of Consecration

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Law of Consecration:

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• Law of Consecration:
○ Why?
§ Poor and the needy 78:3, 83:5-6
§ To give the father glory
§ Promote equality
§ Prepare us for the celestial world
§ Cause the church to stand independent
§ To be prepared to be made rulers
§ Zion to increase and enlarge
§ To benefit the church
§ To enable us to improve our talents
§ To make us accountable
○ 3 CORE PRINCIPLES:
1) As Creator, all is God's. (D&C 104:14, 15, 55, 56)
2) We are stewards, not owners (D&C 104:56, 11-13, 78:22)
□ What have you to consecrate that is actually your own? Nothing" -Brigham Young
3) Agent accountable to God (D&C 104:13,17)
□ Accountability goes hand in hand with agency.
□ We represent the Lord and am accountable to the Lord. The Lord has designated us to represent Him and we are accountable to Him. Because we are His agent we need to do the things he asks of us.

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Section 84:1-42 The Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood

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Priesthood: Keys, office, authority, power, ordinances

Priesthood = Power and Authority of God given to man.

It is a revelation of Priesthood power and ordinances.

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84: Temple, Ordinances

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"In the temple ordinances is where the power of God is manifest. -vs. 20
Without the ordinances you cannot have God's power. -vs. 21

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84: Ordinances

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□ Other churches deny ordinances, they don't teach you that they are necessary.
We don't believe that works will SAVE us. We believe in being saved by the Grace of Jesus Christ.
How does that Grace save us?
◊ We believe we need to confess, believe, faith, repentance, baptism, holy ghost and enduring that saves us.
THE ORDINANCES SAVE US

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Endowment =

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"ENDOWMENT" = The purpose of the Temple. To see the face of God. To be brought back into God's presence.

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The Oath=

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We can become like God. If we get the Ordinances we can become like God. The Father's Oath and Covenant. We can come into his presence.

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Section 85

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Letter to W.W. Phelps

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Steady the Ark

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® Reference to Uzzah in 2 Samuel 6:6 who touched the ark of the covenant without permission and died. Unauthoritative direct the affairs of a brother.
® Lesson to not fall into apostacy.
® Don’t think you know how to run the church better the those who the Lord has called to run the church.
◊ Ex: women in the Priesthood, Homosexual Marriage, blacks and the Priesthood.
® We get into danger when we attempt to unathoritatively steady the ark.
□ If we try to "steady the ark" and act without stewardship we will fall spiritually.

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Section 86:

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Wheat and Tares:
Wheat=Righteous
Tare=Wicked
-Dispensation approach/ Restoration Approach.
--the effects of the Apostacy will continue
---Let the church and apostacy grow together,

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Apostacy and Righteous

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then you will gather out the wheat and grow the wheat of the church. □ "I DON"T CARE WHAT WAS SAID IN 1972. WHAT IS THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM TODAYS PROPHET TODAY!"
® What is taught by the unified order of the church? The First Presidency?
□ The church grows generationally. Vs. 10: it must remain through you and your lineage.
□ "Never permit yourself to become a weak link in the chain of your generations. It is so important that we pass on without a blemish our inheritance of body and brain and, if you please, faith and virtue untarnished to the generations will come after us. . . Life is a great chain of generations that we in the church believe must be linked together"-Pres. Hinckley

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Section 88)

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Olive Leaf and the school of the Prophets revelation

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Section 89)

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Word of Wisdom:
Given in the N.K. Whitney store.

Inspired introduction written by Joseph Smith
not by commandment"

It became an official standard and commandment in 1918 as a temple recommend interview
1945 it became standard practice for all faithful saints/
2004, you cant get baptized unless they "live the word of wisdom"

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Section 91-93)

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Section 91-
-Apocrypha:
--If you read it by the Spirit its good. If not then meh..

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Section 93)

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God -> Progression -> Exaltation

How to grow from grace to grace, line upon line, until in due time we are given and receive a "fullness" of the glory of God (vs. 20) and can behold his face (vs. 1) ENDOWMENT

JOHN THE BAPTIST talking here: This is an exerpt from John the Baptist's Gospel.

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Endowed with Power

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Temple. 84, 88, 89, 93, 94-96 (PURPOSES OF THE TEMPLE)

Kirtland

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Kirtland, Ohio

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Temple, Section 93-96

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Independence, Jackson County, Missouri

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New Jeruselem

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Sydney Rigdon

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Member of First Presidency

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Jessie Goss

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Section 81 was originally directed to him, but due to his disobedience he did not recieve all the promised blessings

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Fredrick G. Williams

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Found in section 81, called to be in the first presidency of the church

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Newell K. Whitney

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Owned the store where the word of wisdom was brought fourth... Joseph Smith actually li

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Edward Partridge

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Presiding Bishop, involved with the revelations on the law of consecration, united order

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WW Phelps

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Section 85, Mission Letters

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Section 91

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gain truth by the Spirit even if they are not scripture.